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Programmes/ Projects Supported by ATF

2014

Programmes / Projects supported by the AIDS Trust Fund in March 2014

PPE 637 PM
Application: Intensive Support and Preventive Programme for AIDS and Blood-borne Diseases
(Executive Summary submitted by the applicant)
Applicant: The Society of Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention, Hong Kong
Objectives: The objectives of this project are:
  1. to educate prison inmates (different age, gender and nationality) the knowledge on HIV/AIDS and blood-borne disease prevention;
  2. to facilitate those with history of drug abuse and sex work to learn and adopt preventive practices to HIV/AIDS through intensive education;
  3. to foster the young predominating a healthy life style through life skills-based HIV/AIDS education and prevention;
  4. to promote "zero discrimination" in seizure environment through staff training and promotional activities;
  5. to strengthen the accessibility to condom of sex workers, sex work agents and sex worker clients;
  6. to scale up the coverage of HIV antibody test and examinations of Sex Transmitted Diseases;
  7. to facilitate the target community to sustain adopting safer sex practice;
  8. to facilitate the target community's involvement in AIDS prevention programs;
  9. to increase coverage of HIV/AIDS and blood-borne disease preventive education services of IDUs and those “will inject” heroin people;
  10. to provide quality services with sensitivity to community through intensive training to the peer educators;
  11. to improve service review and community data collection mechanism and to integrate harm reduction concept from the community;
  12. to establish community-based mobile testing services around the clock and infection support through increasing test coverage;
  13. to extend the coverage of prevention education service among the targeted Non-Chinese ethnic population;
  14. to scale up the coverage of Voluntary Counselling and Testing Service (VCT) targeting Injecting Drug Users, Drug Abusers, Non-Chinese ethnic female sex workers and their clients;
  15. to extend capacity development of the community members to be Peer Educators to provide prevention and harm reduction education to Non-Chinese ethnic community; and
  16. to foster a supportive environment through promotion and community education.
Project Duration: July 2014 to June 2017
Contact Person: Mr. Lau Tsz Chun, Jason
Supervisor (Health Education Service)
2/F, 402-404, Shanghai Street,
Kowloon
Telephone: 2780 1331
Fax: 3747 0456